LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Native Land Court opens at New Plymouth at 10 o'clock on Monday next.

Flags were down from the Government buildings yesterday in honor of the accession of King George V. in 1910. The Taranaki Producers' Freezing Works Coy, have received advice of the allotment of space aboard the Waiwera about June Ist with 3000 boxes of butter and 8000 crates of cheese.

Three stokers on H.M.S. Renown were charged at the Auckland police court with being absent without leave. They 'said they made up their minds to trv colonial life, but discovered that without uniform they received little attention and got no work. When out of money they surrendered to the police and were ordered to be returned to The Renown at Wellington.

Farmers who had stock on the railway during the late strike were hard put to find ways out of the. difficulty. One New Plymouth farmer was caught at Wanganui with OS pigs, which were consigned to Wellington. With commendable enterprise he had the pigs taken to Castlccliff .freezing works, where they were killed, the carcases being subsequently conveyed to Wellington by motor lorry.

"If you can't afford to pay the fine yon mustn't drive so fast,"" said the Magistrate to a young man yesterday morning who pleaded in the New Plymouth Court that he could not afford to pay a fine of £2 which had just been imposed upon him for exceeding the speed limit by driving a motor car in Dawson street at a rate estiTiiatod at from 30 to 35 miles an hour Mr Bailey said he would not have men driving cars about the sjireets at that speed if he could stop it. The slip at the Whang'amomona end of the saddle tunnel is considered to be the mont serious that has occurred (writes a correspondent of the Stratford Por). The tunnel is completely blocked for some chains with all manner of debris, a feature being a great number of trees; these make the work of clearing most difficult, for they must be sajvn up before while the scene of operations smells like a tannery. In addition, the washout immediately before the tunnel putting is a fitiff task, having been caused by the blocking of a culvert, the water finding an egress by way of the track, ivhich it washed awaySpeed in clearing the line will depend upon future rainfall; given a dry spell (lie line will soon he open, fn the meantime passengers are conveyed from Pohokurn by car. hut the road is not good. John George Blane, who has been befor the New Plymouth Court several times for breaches of a prohibition order, was called upon yesterday to explain how he became" possessed of a flask of whiskey, found on him by a constable who discovered him near the esplanade under the influence of liquor. The accused did not appear. The police evidence showed that since the date on which the occurrence took place (which was April 17) Hlinc had in-ken quite a new turn and seemed to be keeping right oil the liquor. His son who took out the order against him, had also said his filth""." was keeping very straight. The Magi.-lrnte took a lenient view of the case in view of the fact lhat accused was a family man and wa= alr-o engaged in painting the New Piymnulh police .station, and ordered him to come up for sentence if'called upon. The Royal train passed, through Kketahumi on Wednesday. The train pulled up to wilier the engine before reaching the station and went on before the crowd of IoiKJ could reach lb.."' Royal carriage. It then -pasted by the people without • stopping, the Prince acknowledging the cheers from the platform uf hi;, carriage, .is the engine-could have watered at the tank at the other .-idc of the station, leaving Hi* iihv;\! .ln.'age in close provrn U 1o tr.e plailVm, the keenest indignation was evjv.M-ed by Uie disappointed, crowd A pubd,-; meeting passed a mo<: ; on i-xprcss'uig nrtfonrrld'sgust at the studied opposition of respon,ih!e officii'.!; <■> the vr.-or.'v r loyiii desire to greet their future s-overeign. A c | y of the resolition was ■'.en', > 'he Prim.? Minister. A lare.e majority of the children had travelled Mug distances. Effigcs of the authovries were lunit i'a the main strc' 1 .

In a huge marquee, with excellentlyboarded floor, end lit with electric light, the jMaoiis of (lie big camp of welcome for the Prince at Rotorua gave dances each n\-iit when the Roynl party ivas in the land of geysers and air laden with sulphuretted hydrogen. This was a popular haunt for the officers of the Henow!!. Many of the Maori girls are ad mirable dancers, and put as much dip into the .two-step, and as much sway into the one-step as the most expert stage dancer. Costumes- varied from the ordinary lounge frock or the "missus" to the Parisian-like creation of the daughters—something tres decollete in lizard green with gold tassels and. heels of the dancing .shoes picked out ill the same costly hue. One girl who got a. lot of partners was dressed '•whaka Maori," that is, bare arms, a kiwi mat thrown round her shoulders, and her pretty hair bound with a filet of flax, plaited in red, black ami white diamonds. Everything was very Knglish, and although' the" pla.ee was crowded with natives, Maori was seldom heard.

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One of the most effective precr.ution--ry measures against an attack of influenza Vis .he free ,se of "Nazol" day and night.

The sitting of the Arbitration Court at New Plymouth, which was to have taken place on Monday next, has been postponed until further notice, owing to the president (Mr. Justice Stringer) being delayed at Napier. "In 1014. we had to find £0,000,000 revenue to meet our liabilities," said Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, at the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce. "To-day we have to find ,€15,000,000 a year Production has not increased one iota since 11)14; in fact, it lias rather gone back. Unless we can increase production or reduce waste, or do both, there is going to 'be trouble. It is a simple calculation, and | ought to be taken homo by everybody. 1 '

Wanganui Borough's newest councillors received somewhat of a surprise when they learned that by arrangement made some time ago the council were supplying a local company with raw tar at sld per gallon, and buying back the distilled product at 10id per gallon. In addition the council was pumping the tar iiito the company's vats without any extra charge. It is now proposed to instal a municipal distilling plant at a cost of about £IOOO or £ISOO and manufacture its own by-products. "This speeding should be stopped," said the Borough Inspector in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, "and with the heavy fines imposed lately I thought the boys would have 'taken a pull,' but they seem to bn as bad as ever." The particular case under consideration was that of a young man who had been "trying out" a motor cycle on the breakwater road, and although he admitted to the inspector he had"been travelling at over 20 miles, the inspector estimated the pace at nearer 40 miles. A fine of £5 and costs was inflicted.

It lias been stated that the Prince of Wales is always happy when he is flying over the roads at a fast speed in a motor ear. This was borne out this week, when lie informed his chauffeur on leaving Wanganui at 0.35 a.m. that lie was due at Marton at 10.15 a.m. The chaull'eur took the hint and opened out, and the rim to Mar ton was accomplished in three-quarters of an hour, which is very good going, especially with the roads in poor condition. His Highness afterwards handed the driver (Sir. Rowan) a gold tie-pin, with the letter E at the top, surmounted by the Prince of Wales' feathers, as a memento and in recognition of the manner in which he had carried out his duties. :

The picturesque clubhouse on the Royal Sydney (lolf Club's links at Rose "ay was, with the exception of the bil-liard-room and office, destroyed by fire recently. There were eleven members in residence at the clubhouse at the time, and they were playing on the links when the fire occurred. An effort was made to save their property, but the fire made such headway that'it was impossible to do anything to the upper storey. In less than an hour the buildings were reduced to a mass of smoking ruins. One member, who had just returned from active service, lost a fine collection of war souvenirs. It is estimated that 3000 clubs, of'an average value of 12s (id each, were destroyed. The damage is estimated it nearly £20,000.

Fiffy-sevon years ago on Tuesday last, a party of ten of the i>7th Regiment ("Die Hards") were on their way to New Plymouth from St. George's Redoubt. They were anrbushed, and nine out of'the ten were killed; the tenth made his escape. Only eight bodies were recovered that day. Some time after, a party ambushed Lieutenant. Waller, killing his horse. The officer readied the Poutoko Redoubt, and a party under Sergeant P.ezar went to the scene, but only managed to secure one of the ambushing party. He told where the body of the missing man (Ryan) would be'found, and it was duly recovered. Here are the names of the party: Lieutenant T. Traggctt, Assistant Surgeon Hope, Color-Sergeant Filers, Sergeant S. Hill, Privates Banks. F. Kelly, P. Kelly (escaped), J. Plynn, B. M'Carthy, M. Ryan. Then began the sec. ond New Zealand War.

An. exciting- family affair was narrated in the Magistrate's Court at Auckland last week, when -private proceedings were ' instituted to have a woman bound over to keep the peace. The affair took place at Mercer on Sunday, April 11. The defendent had taken exception to a young man who was courting Ids daughter, although the proposed alliance was favoured by her husband. She therefore proceeded" from Auckland to Mercer, where the younc man li.-ed, began to 'poke a stick into his face, whiic he stood with his hands in *hu pockets. Her husband witnessed the affair from the house and remonstrated. Thereupon the woman rushed in, lifted a, tea pot and banged it on the top of the young man's head. She next seized her daughter by the throat. A wild scene followed, in which the daughter, father, and mother took part, the woman being finally ejected. The door was closed, but she returned to the fray with an axe, with which she made unsuccessful attempts to gel into the kitchen. Before things quietened down, she had thrown her husband's gun into the river. Various garments worn by tiie participants in the frav were produced in Court to indicate the intensity of the scrimmage. On defendant swearing to ],,. m, tll|J ]mi . ties a)oue the complaint was withdrawn.

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